Positive thinking is underrated. Give it a go for a month and decide for yourself.

This is why I write these “daily thoughts” posts.

It is way easier to do something 100% of the time than < 100% of the time.

I first came across this concept in the book How will you measure your life by Clayton Christensen where he puts it like this:

It’s easier to hold to your principles 100 percent of the time than it is to hold to them 98 percent of the time.

The reasoning is that if you slip up only once, it’s way easier to slip up again because you already slipped up.

You can check out a few of my other favorite quotes from that book.

This is why I write these “daily thought” posts.

It is way easier to do something 100% of the time than < 100% of the time. #consistency https://t.co/pQXj94vkHe

— Nikola Brežnjak (@HitmanHR) January 4, 2022

In this new “Daily Thoughts” series, I’m just scratching my own itch. For too long now I’ve been reading and consuming. Not that there’s something inherently wrong with that, but if one doesn’t offset that with his own producing, one often falls into the trap of staying a consumer.

If you think you know something, or want to learn something about yourself, try to explain it ‘on paper’. Personally, I think best ‘on paper’, and it’s been a while since a wrote a post (or a series, or let alone a book). So, I’ll start small (and build up a habit of daily writing again) by sharing a thought daily. I’ll use this as a retrospective a year from now, and edit the posts by adding additional content. With enough years of editing, these should grow into proper-sized posts.

Dear readers, feel free to chime in with your thoughts on my thoughts (so Meta; which is popular in its own right these days).

P.S. Yes, I know; my drawings are amazing 🙂

What if NFTs are the next best thing? What if NFTs are just another version of ICOs in 2018? What if, what if… Either way, stay curious and educate yourself.

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Journaling is unexpectedly useful (especially in retrospectives). No special form is needed. A good idea is to start with a sentence about what you’re grateful for.

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Self-sabotage is a real thing. What if we stopped it? What if we embrace what we can become, if only we wouldn’t be afraid of failure?

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The way you deal with the delta between reality and expectation is going to define your life, no matter the size of expectations.

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What if before we point the finger we recognize that at least three of them are still pointing at us? What if that makes us reconsider the fact that if it’s always “them”, it could very much so be that it’s actually “us”?

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What if you devote the first hour of the day to yourself, intentionally trying to improve an aspect of your life that you’ve been putting off for too long?

You can do that by reading, thinking, writing, meditating even. The Miracle Morning book can show you what and how to do it. Personally, the life SAVERS exercise is something I’ve stuck with for years now. Here are some other books that may be of interest to you.

Oh, and btw, if you spend half of that 1-hour on reading, you’ll end up reading 30 books per year (and here’s the math that proves it).

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We need more games that make us think instead of those that dumb us down. Video games are not bad (in moderation). Boardgames are better. Puzzle games are great.

I used to love hacker challenge games, and recently I stumbled upon one on iOS called 63.

As a testament that I didn’t lose my mojo completely 😏, I finished on the Leader board.

Great game, check it out, and please recommend any other that you may know that’s similar.

Oh, and BTW, because why not, you can get one of the 62 images (I kept one for myself) above as an NFT on OpenSea.

⚠️ In this new “Daily Thoughts” series, I’m just scratching my own itch. For too long now I’ve been reading and consuming. Not that there’s something inherently wrong with that, but if one doesn’t offset that with his own producing, one often falls into the trap of staying a consumer. If you think you know something, or want to learn something about yourself, try to explain it ‘on paper’.

Personally, I think best ‘on paper’, and it’s been a while since a wrote a post. So, I’ll start small (and build up a habit of daily writing again) by sharing a thought daily. I’ll use this as a retrospective a year from now.

Dear readers, feel free to chime in with your thoughts on my thoughts (so Meta; which is popular in its own right these days).